The rest of the parks’ areas will remain open. Herbicide will not be applied directly to the beach parks, but the public areas maybe be affected by spraying on shoreline properties, according to a City of Bellevue release.

Milfoil can alter a water body’s ecology and rob oxygen from the water.

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